# 18 OF 40 - THIS UNHAPPY BOOK REPORT ON "THE POLITICAL POPE"

# 18 OF 40 - THIS UNHAPPY BOOK REPORT ON "THE POLITICAL POPE"

IN PURSUIT OF THE TRUTH - HTTP://WWW.CINOPSBEGONEBLOGSPOT.COM - TUES. JUNE 4, 2019

 

George Neumauyr, "The Political Pope" Center Street, 2017

Chapter 5 - Unholy Alliance   94 -106

"Cupich represented for Francis the prototypical bishop: a left-wing political activist who energizes the Church's critics while leaving conservative Catholics out in the cold. In 2016 Pope Francis augmented Church's power by adding him to the Congregation of Bishops which makes him along with the liberal Cardinal Wuerl, the chief liberal maker in the United States. ...

 

"The liberal Catholic press hailed Bishop Robert McElroy (San Diego) ... made headlines by supporting gay rights and sacramental laxity.... and urged his priests to give communion to people living in a stare of sin.... "Francis is not an American politician, but his perspective on the state's role in these issues lines up pretty well with that of most American Democrats..., Retired Washington, D.C. cardinal Theodore McCormick has endorsed gay civil unions, which has elevated his standing under Francis....

 

"Indeed, Pope Francis made a McCormick protege, Bishop Kevin Farrell, the head of the newly formed Vatican department called the Discatery for the Laity, the Family and Life in 2016, and later made him a cardinal. Cardinal Timothy Dolan, asked about the pope's support for gay civil unions on NBC Meet The Press, said Francis was telling Catholics that "we need to think about that and look into it and see the reasons that have driven" the public to accept them.... Pope Francis has called on the bishops to incorporate leftist groups into their chanceries in the form of "social justice" offices....

 

"The Left has its pope," wrote the Stanford economist Thomas Sowell. "Pope Francis is part of a larger trend of the rise of the political left among Catholic intellectuals. He is is a sense, the culmination of that trend." ... the left has gained power at the expense of the Church without having to compromise on any of its anti-Catholic positions. "To .... your enemies, you must first seduce your allies," SAUL ALINSKY once bragged to PLAYBOY about his political exploitation of the Church. His disciples, such as the late Edward Chambers ( a former Catholic seminarian) made it plain that they intended to hijack the Church for political gain.

 

Chapter Six: The First Radical Green Pope

"His predecessors kept a prudent distance from day-to-day politics, especially on issues wholly unrelated to faith and morals. But Pope Francis has plunged into them on all matters environmental.... In this role, he had no reservations about using his papal office to promote a climate change treaty at the UN's Paris conference in 2015.... In December 2015, ... the Vatican used the facade of St. Peter's Basilica as a movie screen for a propagandistic "climate change awareness" film - and did so on a holy day, no less.... "The event was part sponsored by the World Bank , well known for its promotion of abortion and contraception...

 

"Many of these environmentalists are anti-Catholic Marxists who support aggressive forms of population controls. Angering the faithful, Pope Francis consulted with the rabid environmentalist Hans Joachim Schellnhuber before writing his environmental encyclical LAUDATE SI. .... Schellnhuber was appointed by Pope Francis to the Pontifical Academy of Sciences.... He was selected Pope Francis to be one of the four presenters at the press conference for the release of LAUDATE SI....

 

"Vladimir Lenin supposedly said that what the Russian Revolution had really needed was not more Bolsheviks but ten St. Francis of Assisi... Another leftist to whom Pope Francis turned for advice on the environment is Jeffrey Sachs, one of the world's leading cheer leaders for abortion and government-run contraception programs.... also consulted with Timothy Wirth, an undersecretary of state under President Bill Clinton,  who was famous for decorating his Christmas trees with condoms,...                      The Eco-Encyclical

"Francis's encyclical on the environment, the first ever written by a pope, was released in May 2015....What the pope presents as a moral crisis is in fact nothing more than a political dispute... The passages in the document touching on global warming read like a hybrid of Marx's 'Das Kaspital' and Al Gore's 'Earth in the Balance.' ...."

 

George H. Kubeck